The Last Shadow Puppets release their second single, 'Standing Next To Me' on Monday the 7th of July 2008. Taken from their recent number 1 album 'The Age Of The Understatement', 'Standing Next To Me' features Alex and Miles on duel vocals, injecting a sense of flair and drama into a 2 minute 18 second pop gem.

The single features 3 exclusive, brand new tracks from The Last Shadow Puppets and will be released on 2 x heavyweight vinyl 7's (RUG 301/RUG 301X), CD (RUG 301CD) and via digital download (RUG 301D), with formats as follows: The Last Shadow Puppets will be making their debut live performance at the Reading and Leeds festivals in August:

Leeds Festival - Friday the 22nd of August
Reading Festival - Sunday the 24th of August

The video for 'Standing Next To Me' was shot in London by Richard Ayoade and you can watch the full video and also three exclusive promo videos for 'Standing Next To Me' on theageoftheunderstatement.com

To see the online article, go to: http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-last-...

'Not only is The Rascals’ recent output very good, theirs is also the only act to take up the stylistic torch offered by ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ and really run with it. So to put this collaboration between Rascal Miles Kane and Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner on and hear their voices blend into ‘Please Please Me’-style harmonies and notice how it cribs equally from both of their melodic styles, well, you suspect that Mr Turner has finally met his McCartney. Whatever, the pair are definitely courting right now, and in a whirlwind way.

Their first date is a Morricone Island rollercoaster that gallops into strings, strings and more strings. Strings like they just don’t make anymore, pitched halfway between spaghetti western and ’60s spy flick. Occasionally James Ford’s drums will leap in like he’s shooting injuns off the back of the wagon, then the whole thing will twist on its axis – a stab of viola here, a twang of Shadows guitar there. Into this cinematic brew dives Alex Turner’s peculiar way with words: “There’s affection to rent… Before the attraction ferments/Kiss me properly and pull me apart”. His syllables twist and turn with cadences all of their own. ‘…Understatement’ lies balanced between the unreachable glamour of a bygone age and the very modern flinty melodies of its authors. Unite the two and you’ve got something that’ll have you laughing at the sheer audacity of its vision – it’s so bold it’s a joke. It even began as a joke – two buddies in search of a collaboration, kidding about being Burt Bacharach, being the guy in the polo neck with curls of smoke rising from the ashtray on the grand piano. That we live in an age when our stars are prepared to take a gamble on such fanciful notions is great. That they thoroughly succeed is fantastically fantastic.'

http://www.nme.com/magazine

Decided to sneak off away
From your stomach and try your pulse
You captured what seemed all unknowing
And candid but they suspected it was false

She’s playful, the boring would warn you
Be careful of her brigade
In order to tame this relentless marauder
Move away from the parade
And she was walking on the tables in the glasshouse
And verily bedraggled in the wind
Subtle in a method of seduction
Twenty little tragedies begin

And she would throw a feather boa in the road
If she thought that it would set the scene
Unfittingly dipped into your companions
Enlightened them to make you see

And there’s affection to rent
The age of the understatement
Before the attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart
Affection to rent
The age of the understatement
But before this attraction ferments
Kiss me properly and pull me apart

And my fingers scratch at my hair
Before my mind can get too reckless
The idea of seeing you here
Is enough to make the sweat go cold